IDF soldiers shot and killed a 17-year-old Palestinian by an IDF checkpoint in Tulkarem in the West Bank following an attack on the soldiers on Wednesday night, Army Radio reported.

According to the report, several Palestinians fired toward and threw Molotov cocktails at the Einav checkpoint.

The soldiers left their positions and responded to the attack with live fire, reportedly killing one Palestinian and injuring another.

Security forces are geared for an outbreak of violence in the West Bank Thursday, particularly in Hebron where a funeral will be held for Palestinian prisoner Maissara Abu Hamdiyeh, 63, who died of esophagus cancer in Soroka Hospital on Tuesday.

Two separate autopsies by both Israel and the Palestinian Authority that his death was caused by cancer, but that did not quell Palestinian anger against Israel for his death.

They have to learn that it is not perpetually open-season on the Jewish people. The only reason the check-point is even there is because Arabs have so often sought to kick the hell out of Jews since the time of Muhammed. Were it not for that time-honored, Koranically-based tradition there would be no need for check-points to begin with.

The Palestinian-Arabs, like the Arab governments more generally, could have chosen to live in peace with their Jewish neighbors, but they chose not to. Were it not for the fact that Arabs absolutely refuse to allow the Jews to live in peace on historically Jewish land there would be no conflict. There would be no check-points. There would be no security barrier (or "Apartheid Wall" as anti-Semitic anti-Zionists like to say). There would have been no "Nakba." There would have been no refugees. There would have been no suicide bombers.

None of it.

It all derives from virulent racism toward the Jewish minority in the Middle East by the vast Arab majority.

These people are ruining their own lives, and the lives of their children, because they absolutely refuse to accept us. Out of a deep, theocratically-based, racism against Jews they are willing to throw everything away.

And what is this nonsense that Israel is somehow responsible for the death of an Arab murderer who dies in an Israeli prison medical facility from cancer?

The stupidity is just unimaginable. Perhaps Netanyahu will apologize and give some additional funds to the PA for their loss.

I know a lot of people will take issue with anyway but seriously, prior to 2001 when people heard "terrorism," they thought "Palestinian." It may be PC to say so but there you have it. I'm sure it's part of the reason so few Americans support Palestinians. Here are some notable attacks which have helped create that image:

Apparently, Mike, the fact that cancer is a much more competent killer than their terrorist heroes is a concept these fine folks find hard to grasp. So, naturally it follows that now it's time to riot.

They will continue to be their own worst enemy, but now that Islamic aggression spreads beyond Israel, more become attuned about the false claims and outrage and there is growing pushback to show that it is not about building something up, but tearing things down.

Since the Arabs want 'international supervision' of Arab prisoners I would call for such a thing. In Europe, the cradle of human rights. Establish a regime whereby all Arab terrorists in Israeli prisons, theses so called 'political prisoners' are packed on planes and sent to Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium and/or the UK. That way they can be cared for in the style to which the EU demands they be administered.

I would place them entirely in their care including the extent to which they continue to be imprisoned at all. For if, for example Anders Breivik could be facing no more than 14 years in prison (in theory, in practice he's likely in prison forever - in a strangely ironic case of human rights loving Norway essentially passing a law against one man) for murdering 77 people, then these so called freedom fighters, who, being convicted of the deaths of mere Jews or the attempted deaths of mere Jews should probably see only a few months or weeks of incarceration. Then let them roam about the free-breathing spaces of Europe. Give them refugee status. Let them settle there if they like, with their families.

Or, should they decide they'd rather return to the Goat-molest-istan of their dreams and want to return to the family business of Jew-killing then if they do, shoot them on sight as still being technically incarcerated for life under Israeli law and clearly a prison escapee bent on mass murder. But for my money, I'd choose to stay in Brussels or Oslo, Malmo, Geneva, Manchester..on the dole, worshiped as a man-god-hero in the community.

Barack Obama on the so-called "Arab Spring" (May 19, 2011):

"There are times in the course of history when the actions of ordinary citizens spark movements for change because they speak to a longing for freedom that has been building up for years. In America, think of the defiance of those patriots in Boston who refused to pay taxes to a King, or the dignity of Rosa Parks as she sat courageously in her seat."

The "Arab Spring" was the brutal rise of political Islam in the Middle East and this is what Obama compares the Civil Rights Movement to?

The Fundamental Argument:

The progressive movement, and the activist base of the Democratic Party, creates and supports venues that demonize and defame the Jewish state, thereby also creating hatred toward the Jewish people.

Such venues include political journals, such as, but not limited to, Daily Kos, the Huffington Post, and the UK Guardian, numerous universities throughout the United States and Europe, various NGOs with an anti-Israel agenda, and the entire progressive-left movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction (BDS) the Jewish people of the state of Israel.

These venues and organizations do not generally criticize Israel, but dehumanize that country.

For this reason, among others, the progressive movement, and the activist base of the Democratic Party, undermines the well-being and safety of Jews around the world, sometimes resulting in violence toward us.

Therefore, as a matter of common sense and basic human decency, Jews should leave the progressive movement and the Democratic Party as we seek to build alternative political structures that are not home to toxic anti-Semitic anti-Zionists, who would see us robbed of self-determination and self-defense.

What You Can't Discuss:

This is a partial list of taboo topics within progressive-left venues around the Arab-Israel conflict. You cannot discuss this material because it undermines the "Palestinian narrative" of perpetual victimhood. This narrative is a club used by the Arab and Muslim enemies of Israel, along with their western progressive allies, to delegitimize that country in preparation for its eventual dissolution.

1) The centuries of Jewish dhimmitude under the boot of Islamic imperialism.

2) The recent construction of Palestinian identity, its connection to Soviet Cold War politics, and how this is an Arab people with a Roman name that refers to Greeks.

3) Arab and Palestinian Koranically-based racism as the fundamental source of the conflict.

4) The ways in which contemporary progressive anti-Zionism serves as a cloak for gross anti-Semitism.

5) The Palestinian theft and appropriation of Jewish history.

6) "Pallywood."

7) The historical connections between the Nazis, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Palestinian national movement.

8) The perpetual refusal of the Palestinian-Arabs to accept a state for themselves in peace next to the Jewish one.

9) The progressive portrayal of terrorists as those fighting a righteous war of "resistance."

10) The Arab-Palestinian indoctrination of children with Jew hatred.

11) Human rights violations against women, children, and Gay people in the Muslim Middle East.

12) The fact that violent Jihadis call themselves "Jihadis" and claim to love death above life.

This is only a partial list, so please let us know the many more that we are missing.

Quote of the Whenever:

It is not that most progressives are anti-Semitic. They aren't. It's that they don't get it, they don't care, and they very much want you to shut the fuck up. - Michael Lumish